𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝕺𝖓𝖊
𝔖𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔶: A high-school project gone wrong sends Astraea Aphelion fifteen centuries back in time, where she has to face a world of dragons, magic, and evil sorcerers. Luckily, she is not alone. In between hardships, she finds a...
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📍 Dallas, Texas
⏳ June, 2006
[warning: references to death]
"Where mommy?!" a wailing three-year-old Astraea Aphelion asked the blonde nurse who was currently changing the bandages on her stitched-up abdomen.
Everyone who was working at the hospital that night agreed that it was a miracle that the young child had survived the awful car accident, though she was not without injury. A large, deep cut ran diagonally across her stomach, which had been caused by a bent piece of metal from the car door; and she had a concussion and a broken arm, along with other minor bruises and cuts. Thankfully, none of the damage was bad enough to require surgery; only stitches, a cast, and a handful of medicines.
"She's not here right now, dear," the nurse replied softly as she finished her task.
The little girl frowned, her dark green eyes squinting as the white light above her caused her head to hurt. "Where daddy?!" she asked.
"Go to sleep, hun," the young nurse continued to evade the question, not knowing how to break the news to a disoriented three-year-old.
Astraea cried for a long time, partly due to the pain and the shock from being injured and having a needle stuck in her arm; but mostly because she hadn't seen her parents since she'd woken up three hours prior and nobody was telling her anything. Finally, she fell asleep from pure exhaustion and the nurse – Layla – was able to leave the room while slightly regretting her choice to ever become a paediatrician.
It wasn't too long before Gustab Aphelion and his wife, Kelly, arrived at the hospital. They had heard the news some four hours after the car had been found thanks to a doctor who'd had the decency to check Stefano and Halley's expedients for anyone they could contact – not only to give them the news of the couple's passing, but also to let them know that their daughter had survived and was in relatively good shape, though now orphaned.
"Where is she?!" Gustab asked the first nurse he came across upon entering the building, his hazel eyes wide in distress.
"Sir?" the startled red-head questioned.
"Astraea Aphelion. I'm her uncle," the man clarified while running a hand over his partly bald head.
The nurse gave him a sympathetic look. "Right this way," she instructed.
"Honey, there's someone here to see ya'," nurse Gemma awakened the child by placing a gentle hand on her arm.
The young brunette rubbed her eyes and mentally prayed it was either of her parents before sitting up to look at the door, where her uncle stood.
"Unca Gus?" she asked sleepily and with obvious disappointment in her tone.
He stepped closer to her and began to gently stroke her messy hair. "Hey, kid. How're ya' feelin'?" he asked.